Koppel was scarcely alone. Here's a CBS broadcast
of September 2: "For years now the disaster near Waco
has been exhibit number one for many who
have deep distrust of the American government.
From conspiracy sites on the Internet to
documentary films, Waco has provided a focus
for those who see the government as the enemy.
And now they say there is proof the government
has been lying, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

'This is just fodder for the conspiracy theorists,'
says psychologist Margaret Singer. She says
this is just what the militia movement needs
to say we told you so....Many are certain
to see this as government out of control.
'The anti-government movement, the militia,
hate groups are absolutely going to get a
boost out of this and I think it's really
a tragedy for that reason,' said Mark Potok
of the Southern Poverty Law Center. At one
time conspiracy theorists may have been viewed
as eccentrics far out on the fringe, but
then Timothy McVeigh drove a truck full of
explosives to Oklahoma City and we all discovered
just how dangerous it can be when people
stop trusting the government."
-Deja post, 1999/09/10

} As with Koppel, the problem for these CBS
broadcasters , and for the shrink, } Singer,
and for Potok, from that fraudulent Dees
outfit, is not one of } overweening and murderous
government, but of potential sedition. Anything
} that disturbs popular torpor is tactically
inept. Accomplices in the great } and ongoing
Cover-up of Everything that Really Matters
-- the central mission } of the Fourth Estate,
they tremble for Power, whenever Power is
displayed in } an undignified or unappetising
light. The film Waco, A New Revelation, whose
} disclosures about the pyrotechnic devices
CounterPunch reported many weeks } ago, has
had the benign effect of discrediting the
FBI and the Department of } Justice and its
chieftain, but in the end it may permit the
FBI to recoup, by } saying that the target
of the pyrotechnic devices was just an outhouse
and } that these same projectiles never struck
the main building in which the } Branch Davidians
were sheltered.
}
} As Dan Gifford, executive producer of the
earlier Waco: The Rules of Engagement asserted
on September 3, "No national news organization is saying
} anything at all about the government's
careful prepping of the Davidian } building
to burn nor its machine-gunning of the Davidians
in the burning } building that is so clearly
shown in the FBI's own aerial surveillance
video } that is included in Waco: The Rules of
Engagement."

In this repellent passage, Koppel defines
his career role as flack for state power.
For him, the issue is not that an agency
of government appears to have planned mass
murder, exactly as the so-called "conspiracy
nuts" first conjectured, then, proved.
For him, the issue is the credibility of
the state. For the liberal elite -- in whose
ranks most so-called conservatives can be
numbered -- this is always the issue. Koppel
was scarcely alone. Here's a CBS broadcast
of Sep. 2:

"For years now, the disaster near Waco
has been exhibit No. 1 for many who have
deep distrust of the American government.
From conspiracy sites on the Internet to
documentary films, Waco has provided a focus
for those who see the government as the enemy.
And now they say there is proof the government
has been lying, reports CBS News Correspondent
John Blackstone. "'This is just fodder
for the conspiracy theorists,' says psychologist
Margaret Singer. She says this is just what
the militia movement needs to say, 'We told
you so.' ... Many are certain to see this
as government out of control.

"'The anti-government movement, the
militia, hate groups are absolutely going
to get a boost out of this, and I think it's
really a tragedy for that reason,' said Mark
Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. At one time, conspiracy theorists may have
been viewed as eccentrics far out on the
fringe, but then, Timothy McVeigh drove a
truck full of explosives to Oklahoma City,
and we all discovered just how dangerous
it can be when people stop trusting the government."

>>What hate crime legislation does
is elevates some victims to a status
>>more worthy of protection. Kind of
like the ancient civilizations
>>that only fined you for assaulting
a peasant, but took your life for
>>assaulting royalty.

>That is not at all the case. Hate crimes
laws are a remedy for unequal
>protection. Gay people are not protected
equally under current law. The
>existing federal hate crimes law protects
victims from assaults based hatred
>of their race, national origion and religion.
Gay people are excluded. Here
>is the result, according to the Southern
Poverty Law Center. (excerpt)

That IS the case. There is no unequal protection for gays or
any other minority: laws against murder,
assault, etc. in no state that I am aware
of contain exceptions that permit the perpertrator
of a violent attack to go free if his victim
is a minority.

What is needed is not more legislation, but
greater enforcement of existing penal law.

Damien Falgoust
University of Texas School of Law -- 3L
1998-99 Admin. Editor - The Review of Litigation
dfalgoust@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/3578/

Yes, that is true. Morris Dees from the Southern
Poverty Law Center caused the local KKK to
go bankrupt on this basis. There can also
be the allegation of conspiracy as well.
The bottom line is, until the law is changed
making individuals responsible for their
own actions, regardless of their membership
in a group or belief system, one should keep
one's guard up.

On a related note, it would be quite amusing
for someone to sue the Catholic church or
the Pope for the multiple killings, sexual
abuse, etc., propagated by its priests and
assorted followers!

NNA Breaking News provides daily news from
around the world. NNA news correspondents
search the world for stories of interest
to concerned Nationalists and mails them
to you daily.
http://nna.stormfront.org/

Once we have absorbed and understood the
fact of Jewish media control, it is our inescapable
responsibility to do whatever is necessary
to break that control. We must shrink from
nothing in combating this evil power which
has fastened its deadly grip on our people
and is injecting its lethal poison into their
minds and souls. If we fail to destroy it,
it certainly will destroy our race
Who Rules America

Don, you quoted [Siskel and] Ebert about
the recent documentary, "Waco: Terms
of Engagement." Allow me to quote extensively
from the Spring 1998 "Intelligence Report"
by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The film was nominated for a best-documentary
Academy Award this year, and although it
lost, it drew a series of rave reviews. "Two
thumbs up," ruled Siskey & Ebert.
"A doozy of an investigative expose,"
The New York Times concluded. "A serious
documentary," said The Washington Post.

To no one's surprise the movie has been picked
up and recirculated in a massive way by the
antigovernment "Patriot" movement.
It's been reviewed and advertised in the
literature, Internet sites and radio programs
of the extreme right. . . .

Gifford, a former television reporter, ignores
a vast array of facts that don't fit into
his theories of the events inTexas. He and
his researcher, Michael McNulty - who's also
been an investigator for Soldier of Fortune
magazine and surviving Branch Davidians who've
filed a civil suit - mischaracterize much
of the evidence they do cite.

Lee Hancock, an investigative reporter with
The Dallas Morning News, recently concluded
that the documentary "didn't get many
facts right." Unlike either Gifford
or McNulty, Hancock covered both the Waco
siege and the conspiracy trial of 11 survivors.
She also relied on a review of court records,
congressional hearings and government investigations.

The film, for instance, strongly implies
that during the initial raid the ATF fired
first at the Davidians inside the compound.
It says nothing of court testimony from three
journalists that the Davidians fired first.
It ignores the mass of evidence that Davidian
leader David Koresh knew of the imminent
raid and prepared his followers for battle.
. . It makes no reference to tapes recorded
that morning of Davidians yelling about setting
the fire and keeping it going, or to court
testimony and physical evidence supporting
that scenario.

Gifford says he didn't have time in the film
to include such evidence.

U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla, chaired the
Congressional hearings on the 1993 events
in Waco. After reviewing some of the film's
allegations. McCollum told Hancock that he
found the documentary to be biased. "Am
I concerned that this [film] encourages people
to believe something that I think is patently
untrue? Yes, I am concerned."

. . . "The truth was bad enough,"
Joe Turner, the attorney for one of the Davidians
during the federal conspiracy trial, told
Hancock. "Why not tell the truth?"

Here is more on their web site:
http://www.splcenter.org/klanwatch/kw-4f9.html

A couple more things:

1. A member of my immediate family was the
innocent victim of a stakeout, chase and
shooting by "bad cops" some years
ago in North Carolina. She miraculously escaped
unharmed, physically, that is. They held
a gun to her head and fired it, but drunkenly
missed. I am not partial to law enforcement.

2. I wrote you earlier this week that I was
married to an INS agent, former Border Patrol,
at one time. He is one of the "good
cops." He is also a recovering crack
addict and was a dealer for several years
before going into law enforcement. He taught
me to despise ATF.

There are no easy answers, and to me, carrying
a gun is an easy answer, therefore doesn't
really address the problem.

"That is the fear of the radical right
in this country, a fear of the federal government
acting as the spearhead of some massive global
conspiracy," says Mark Potok of the
Southern Poverty Law Center, a Birmingham,
Ala., group that monitors right-wing extremism.
"This will just add the Pentagon to
an already extremely long list of enemies."

Defense officials doubt they will be able
to assuage diehards on the left or the right.
"There is a lot of frenzy out there,"
says a senior Pentagon official. "Already
people are beginning to look at this issue
through the filter of their biases."

We are no longer clowns; we are scapegoats.
Aryan racial nationalists of any sort are
the last minority group in America, and indeed
throughout the Western world, who can legally
and legitimately be slandered, vilified,
abused, politically, economically, and socially
persecuted, imprisoned on fabricated charges,
assaulted and murdered not only with impunity
but in public, with tacit approval by the
authorities spiritual and temporal.

A whole multi-million dollar "monitoring"
industry has sprung up, personified by the
loathsome Morris Seligman Dees and his grotesquely
misnamed Southern Poverty Law Center, which
raises incredible sums of money every year
by promising their donors that they are contributing
to our destruction.

Horrifying and obscenely unconstitutional
laws are being introduced in Congress every
week in the name of combatting "domestic
terrorism", the new code word for White
dissent against America’s intolerable racial
and economic situation. One of these bills,
the brainchild of Rep. Charles Schumer (D.-Israel) for the
first time introduced a legal procedure whereby
Americans may be imprisoned for their thoughts,
specifically "unseemly speculation and
baseless conspiracy theories regarding the
Federal government." This one didn't pass, but the fact that Schumer
thought he could get away with it at all
says something about the condition our society
is in.
Subject: Entering A New Century
Date: 1998/08/14

Since the Aug. 10 shooting, Jewish organizations
have sponsored community meetings with law
enforcement on security. In addition, the
ADL has developed a security awareness video
and distributed more than 500 handbooks,
which are available on its Web site (http://www.adl.org).

The proportion of Americans admitting to
anti-Semitic attitudes dropped from 20% in
1992 to 12% in 1998, said Marjan Keypour,
Pacific Southwest regional assistant director
of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that
the number of white supremacist organizations
has declined by almost half in the last three
years. LA Times, Synagogues Boost Security for Holiday Observances,
September 10, 1999